The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-04

I as uOEGs ana all on BOARD were drowned
PETE MCCoY, one of the principals in a
| prize fight at Cleveland, o., on the 25th,
was sentenced on the 26th to pay fine Of
| one hundred dollars, and was committed
to the workhouse for thirty days.
OK the 26th battery of three boilers in
/ Harvey's paper mill at Wellsburg, Va,
| exploded, completely shattering the west
ern portion Of the mill, instantly killing
/ two men and wounding three more
/ CLARENCE DRESSER, Cedar Rapids (Ia)
/ newspaper man, is in jail in that city on a
I charge of criminal libel
/ OK the night Of the 9th Armstrong,
| Craig & Co, paper manufacturers at Phil
I adelphia, suffered loss of $4,000 by fire.
! AT Port Deposit, Nd, an immense
amount of damage has been done by
\ floods, resulting from an ice gorge oppo-
l site that place.
on the 9th Edward Unger, a saloon
\ keeper, was arrested in New York,
/ charged with the murder Of the man
4 found in a trunk at Baltimore.
>. M. ZIEGLER, of st. Louis, committed
suicide at Omaha, Neb., on the 28th.
COLONEL WEsTMAN, of Joliet, Ill, COM
| mitted suicide on the 2sth on account of
| illness.
A CoLoRED woman named Mary Jones
was shot at Baltimore, Nd, on the night
Of the 2Sth, while burglarizing store.
] POSTMASTER CURRY of Stewardson, Ill,
| in his accounts.
A LITTLE daughter Of Amos Weller,
| near Des MOines, Ia, was killed on the
/ 28th by the careless discharge of a gun.
THOMAS R. WHITEHEAD, ex-clerk of the
/ Cleveland Board of Education, was ar
/ rested on the 2Sth, and is prisoner at the
| county Jail The grand jury indicted him
for embezzling s2,2S5 of the funds of the
| board.
! THE jury In the case OF Louis Bieral,
/ charged with the attempted assas sination
of Surveyor of the Port Hans S. Beattie,
in New York, found him guilty as
| charged, on the 2Sth, and recommended
him to the mercy of the court
the police of Boston have just succeeded
! in breaking up a gang Of boy horse-thieves
| in that city, whose exploits have caused
sensation. They began operations January
y, and succeeded in stealing 5000 worth
of horses, sleighs and robes.
THE Chinese Minister at Washington
| celebrated his birthday on the night of
the 2Sth by pleasant party of one hun
| dred and fifty guests at the legation resi-
| dence. The invitations were verbal
| THE chief post-ofice inspector has been
informed that five of the men engaged in
the recent robbery of the railroad train at
1 Gordon, Tex, have been arrested, and the
! prospect is that the other three will be
| captured
JOHN WILSON KEHoE, who swindled the
National Shoe and Leather Bank of New
ark, n. J., out of S75, 900, has been captured
at Winfield, Man., and will return the
| greater part of the money. He consented
to return without extradihon proceed
! ings.
JAMFs o. WILSON was killed by a boiler
| explosion at LalSeview, Mich, on the Goth.
THE remains of August Bohle. the vic
tim of the Baltimore trunk sensation,
! We're received in New York on the Goth,
and were taken charge of by the coroner.
Edward URger, the murderer, has con-
/ fessed.
IN the case Of May Foster, on trial at
Des Moines, Ia, for the murder of her
! roommate, Jessie Carter, nearly year
/ ago, the jury returned a verdict Of not
\ guilty on the 29th.
| BURGLARS entered the store of Benedict
] a. Ruedy, furriers, at Cleveland, O., dur
| ing the night of the 2Sth, and carried off
| 5000 worth of sealsltin sacques.
LEONARD BURNBAUM committed suicide
| in Central Park, New York, on the 29th,
1 by shooting himself. Business reverses
and a consequent postponed marriage is
/ the presumable cause.
JOHN DAHLMAN, a wealthy resident of
| Milwaukee, Wis, hanged himself on the
3Oth, while temporarily insane.
/ IN a furious fight between about fifty
Italians, at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 30tA,
Jour of their number were seriously
! stabbed.
Jun CORNISH, who murdered Julia Green
in Washington County, KY, on the 25th
| was taken from Jail at Springfield, KY, on
the 30th, by mob, and lynched.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A COMMUNICATION from Berlin, pub
Hshed at Pesth, states that war between
/ Germany and France is regarded as more
probable than the German public are led
| to believe
Tue British Parliament was opened on
| the 21th. The Queens speech was read
| by Lord Halsbury.
OK the 9th the joint resolution submit
ting prOhibitory amendment to the the
] Constitution was passed in the Michigan
Tenate- The question will be submitted
| at the State election next April
/ On the 9th, by a preconcerted arrange
| ment, notice was posted in most of the
boot and shoe factories at Worcester,
! Mass, and in Spencer, that those factories
! Will be open only to such operatives as will
! agree to deal individually with the firm
employing them. This movement affects
| a large number of operatives throughout
] Worcester County.
TWENTY THOUSAND men are now on
! strike among the coal-shovelers, long
/ shoremen, freight handlers and men en-
/ plOyed on the river front in almost every
| capacity in New York, and the number is
| augmented to close on 10000 by the strik-
/ ers on the Brooklyn and Jersey shores. In
| consequence, il is almost impossible for
any of the steamers for Europe or coast
wise to leave port.
ELEGANTLY engraved cards of invitation
/ to the State dinner to the diplomatic corps
| at Washington, February 3, have been is
sued at the White House.
! RUSSIA refuses to join formal confer
! ence on the Bulgarian question.
GERMANY is said to be erecting barracks
! along the French frontier.
A LOT of wool, smuggled from Canada,
has been seized by Government officers in
| Philadelphia.
A REVOLUTION has broken out among the
inhabitants Of the Maldive islands in the
! Pacific ocean.
JOHN MORLEY has been agreed upon as
mediator between the Northumberland
/ (Eug) miners and their employers.
People of Achille island, OF County
Mayo, Ireland, are preparing for active re
| sistancc to evictions.
! THE Tennessee Senate on the 2Sth
! passed, on its final reading, the prohibi-
/ tion amendment to the Constitution, the
| vote being: Yeas, 81; nays, ?
THE Commissioner of the General Land
ONCE has decided tnat the State of Col
| orado is not entitled TO sections 10 and SO
! in each township in the Ute Indian
| reservation for school purposes under the
act of March 8, 1876. 1t is held that these
sections at the date of the grant were
covered by the Indian title, and could not
pass with the grant, and the lands of the
! reservation having been disposed OF bv
] treaty, and not by act of Congress, no in
| demnity can be selected therefor. About
/ $4,000 acres are involved.
THE Secretary of the Navy sent the
House committee on naval affairs large
model OF gunboat No. I, which is to be of
! 1. 1ih0 tons btfr1nr with siw-fn0h rifles Ave